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Three candidates advanced to Alaska’s general election to represent the state’s At-Large Congressional District on Tuesday, according to a call by the Associated Press.Alaska has a non-partisan, ranked-choice primary system that selects the four candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, to proceed to the general election. Tuesday’s primary saw 12 candidates vying for a position in the top four, including incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Ala.
CHICAGO – Former President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Tuesday evening, where he praised President Biden just weeks after reportedly helping oust Biden from his re-election effort. “It’s been 16 years since I had the honor of accepting this party’s nomination for president. And I know that’s hard to believe since I haven’t aged a bit, but it’s true.
MILWAUKEE, WI – Vice President Kamla Harris took the Democrats’ convention on the road on Tuesday, as she and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz headed to nearby battleground Wisconsin.Speaking in front of a packed Fiserv Forum, the same arena where the Republicans held their national nominating convention one month ago, Harris pointed to her battle against former President Trump, saying “this is not 2016 or 2020,” and warning that “the stakes are higher.
CHICAGO – Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the “ceremonial” roll call vote nominating her as the Democratic Party’s nominee on Tuesday evening during a rally in Milwaukee, which is located about a 90-minute drive from the DNC’s host city of Chicago. “The delegates at the Democratic National Convention, well they just completed their roll call.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district Tuesday night. Wyoming is one of six states to only have one statewide district, along with Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont.
CHICAGO – In what may be one of the last major speeches of his decades-long political career, President Biden on Monday night handed the reins of the party to Vice President Kamala Harris as he spotlighted their administration’s accomplishments over the past three and a half years.
CHICAGO – President Biden delivered his highly anticipated address to the Democratic National Convention late Monday night and touched on a variety of subjects including strong criticisms of former President Trump and the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in control of Gaza.
CHICAGO – President Biden on Monday evening during his DNC speech spotlighted a debunked claim that former President Donald Trump spoke favorably of neo-Nazis in 2017 following the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. “We’re in a battle for the very soul of America. I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017.
CHICAGO – Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night where she praised the accomplishments of VP Kamala Harris and highlighted the legal issues of former President Donald Trump.”She will fight to lower costs for hard-working families, open the doors wide for good-paying jobs and yes, she will restore abortion rights nationwide,” Clinton told the crowd at the United Center.
CHICAGO – The Democratic National Convention reportedly snubbed Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s request to speak during the convention, just weeks after his historic address before the Republican National Convention. “We have not received a response to our request to speak,” the Teamsters told the National Desk on Monday of O’Brien’s previous request to address the audience in Chicago.
For progressives who somehow thought Biden was too moderate, a President Harris would kick things up a notch — no matter the consequences.
FIRST ON FOX: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) projected images on Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday evening ahead of the party’s convention on Monday.”All eyes are on Chicago, and tonight, everyone is receiving a preview of the contrast that Democrats will drive throughout the Democratic National Convention this week – directly on Trump International Hotel,” the DNC said in a statement.
Former President Trump will visit the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Arizona, this Thursday, amid a broken border resulting in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, and a drug crisis fueled by fentanyl pushed by drug cartels.Trump’s campaign announced his visit on Sunday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris, who was referred to as “border Czar Kamala Harris,” for the “country’s worst border crisis.
PITTSBURGH — Vice President Harris on Sunday appeared to label former President Trump a “coward” during a stop Sunday in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise to the top of the Democratic ticket has re-energized Black voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania.Harris leads former President Trump 70%-9% among Black voters in Michigan and 70%-11% among Black voters in Pennsylvania, according to the results of a Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Sunday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says policy is the GOP’s key to the White House, and urges former President Trump to focus on that rather than his opponent.”Donald Trump, President Trump, can win this election,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “His policies are good for America. And if you have a policy debate for president, he wins. Donald Trump, the provocateur, the showman may not win this election.
A new proposal being considered by the New York City Council would limit correction officers’ use of pepper spray to control inmates acting out in the city’s jails.The bill, introduced Thursday, would require correction officers to obtain authorization from their tour commander before using high-powered oleoresin capsicum sprays, otherwise known as pepper spray, on inmates except in emergency situations.
Former President Trump took a swing at Vice President Harris’s recently debuted economic plan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee had gone “full communist.””In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist,” Trump told supporters during a spirited swing-state rally Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania.
It’s the Democrats’ race to lose. That’s the view of liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore who has warned Democrats not to fumble their chances of beating former President Trump in November’s presidential election now that Vice President Kamala Harris heads the ticket.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, made a pitch to Republican and Libertarian voters in Nebraska while speaking at a rally in Omaha Saturday. Walz, who grew up in the Cornhusker State, told the audience, “In Nebraska, you got a slogan here: ‘Nebraska. It’s not for everyone.’ Well, it sure ain’t for Donald Trump, I’ll tell you that. This guy is the opposite of everything here.
Resounding calls for Vice President Kamala Harris to conduct press interviews are mounting after the Democratic presidential nominee unveiled her economic plan days before heading to her party’s national convention in Chicago.Tim Murtaugh, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital Harris is running the “most deceitful campaign in history” as she “hides from the American people.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills on Friday in an effort to reduce smash-and-grab robberies and property crimes, creating stricter penalties for repeat offenders and people running professional reselling schemes.The Democratic governor was joined by a bipartisan coalition of state lawmakers, business leaders and local officials at a Home Depot store in San Jose.
The abortion issue has taken center stage this week in Montana in the midst of a closely watched U.S. Senate race. On Wednesday, the state’s supreme court invalidated as unconstitutional a law restricting abortion access for minors to those who obtained parental consent.”No politician should be in the business of making health care decisions for women,” a spokesperson for Sen.
The whole world is watching.They want to see what unfolds this week in Chicago as Democrats convene their quadrennial political convention and anoint Vice President Harris as their 2024 standard-bearer.But, the mantra “the whole world is watching” is from 1968.REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: WIN OR LOSE, HARRIS MUST ATTEND THE JAN. 6 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CERTIFICATIONThat was a battle cry from demonstrators who descended on the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968.
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The Harris campaign is signaling continued support for ending cash bail and bail reform as the vice president and former prosecutor faces scrutiny over past policies and positions related to crime and law enforcement.”Vice President Harris believes our criminal justice system should protect and serve all Americans, regardless of their economic status, gender, or race,” James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, told Fox News Digital.
Columbia has an opportunity to behave like an elite American college, but only if the outgoing president’s successors can grasp what she did not.
Former President Trump held yet another hours-long press conference Thursday — his second this month — in an effort to draw a stark contrast between his candidacy, policies and campaign versus his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been dodging the media since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Trump held a press conference Thursday at his Bedminster, New Jersey property.
Former President Trump will have bulletproof glass surrounding his podium for outdoor events going forward, a federal law enforcement source briefed on the planning told Fox News. Indoor events, meanwhile, will not involve the same level of protection, the source confirmed. The additional level of protection comes after an assassination attempt on the former president during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last month.